Day 16 Africa / Atlantic Slave Trade
• Warm Up: Chant de Elegua
• Extra Credit: Movie: Amistad, Episode I Roots
• Homework:132-136
Mali 1200-1450
• Expanded trade to Atlantic
• Mansa Musa (King of Kings) wealthiest ruler of his day
Causes of Atlantic Slave Trade
• Slavery and indentured servitude in Africa
• 1400’s European demand low w/ discovery demand explodes
• Small Pox destroys local population
• Inability to escape
Trade• Grew into a massive
enterprise• 40% in Brazil as compared to
4% in the Americas• African Merchants
Cooperation• Triangular Trade- Manufactured Goods from
Europe- Middle Passage (slaves)- Sugar, Rum, Cotton, Tobacco
from the Americas
Inhumane Treatment• Hold below Deck
(20% die)• Plantations, Mines or
servants• Auctions• Cultural Resistance
Olaudah Equino
“ I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I never experienced in my life; so that, with the loathsome stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat…but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across…the windlass, while the other flogged me severely”
African Influence in Caribe
• Religion (Santeria, Voodoo)
• Capueto (Brazil)• Words (fulano,
mengana)• Influences on food and
Music
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